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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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You do though:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reportedly_haunted_highways
Yeah but I meant an ordinary roadway in like, y'know a city full of traffic. Tolls and stoplights, potholes and cops everywhere and whatnot
Not some zoinky one out in the boonies, cuz hauntings there are mega duh
Isn't it crazy that haunted houses are the only houses that are haunted?
Ordinary suburban houses can be haunted too
Wouldn’t that make it a haunted house?
GOTTEM
I was imagining haunted house to mean more like Haunted™ House like with dusty candelabras and cobwebby spiral staircases and whowhatsthems
That's the usual, but The Amityville Horror was a normal, modern house.
Mega duh, or just double super duh? ;)
Honestly probably because lively areas don't feel "ghostly". Same reason why a house where somebody was murdered doesn't feel haunted when there's a big house party going on. Because ghosts aren't real and are a runaway imagination being scared of shadows. You could probably convince your amygdala to be scared at a big house party, but that sounds like a terrible plan.
They don’t feel liminal, which sparks the ghost stories.
Speaking of amygdala, they’ll just claim yours is “calcified” from the fluoride.
Theirs are enlarged from the constant lifetime of lead exposure
Moving the goalposts
Wasn't me, a ghost moved them!
They're just happy to be out of traffic.
Whoa, cool username!
Usernames that are just a single word, especially that word, are gonna be ultra rare on here one day
Just spin up your own server!
Some of us have single-word usernames on the largest instance. 😎
[Cue Weird Al]
I remember slashdotters flaunting their low UIDs. :)
Mine is "only" six digits!
Haha, mine may have been somewhere around that too, but I don't remember for sure. I think I recall seeing at least one two-digit ID commenter there when that sort of discussion came up.
I think that was a point made in the TV show Ghosts.
(spoilers for episode 1)
The main character tried to move away from a haunted house and saw ghosts everywhere. Including when she was waiting for a taxi and spoke to a woman who died in a car crash on that road, and at another point saw ww2 parachuters stuck in a tree.